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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (30896)	6/14/2008 12:54:03 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224756

Best Community Organizer can't Win Action-oriented Jacksonians votes: It’s not race, it’s arugula By see-dubya at michellemalkin.com • June 14, 2008 The Weekly Standard’s Noemie Emery disputes the media’s facile, predictable racial interpretation of Obama’s poor showing in Appalachia. It’s not because of race, but rather reflects a deep national divide between action-oriented Jacksonians versus clerical, paper-pushing Brahmins: Let us call this rival approach the Barone Manifesto, after its author, political analyst Michael Barone, who crunched the poll numbers for Obama’s primary battles with Hillary Clinton and discovered that while the former did exceedingly well with white voters in university towns and state capitals, he did poorly almost everywhere else. From this, Barone broke the electorate down into two large divisions–academics and state employees who live in these places, whom he calls Academicians, and Jacksonians, who live elsewhere, especially in the regions close to the Appalachian mountains. Yep, that’s it. Academicians eat arugula, and worry about its price at Whole Foods. Jacksonians don’t. There’s nothing wrong with being an academician or eating arugula (hey, I do), you’re just going to have a hard time selling yourself to Jacksonian America as the kind of bold leader they’re looking for. Even if you were the bestest “community activist” in all of Chicago. Emery’s last paragraph is interesting: Now let us imagine a different candidate, one who looks like Barack Obama, with the same mixed-race, international background, even the same middle name. But this time, he is Colonel Obama, a veteran of the war in Iraq, a kick-ass Marine with a “take no prisoners” attitude, who vows to follow Osama bin Laden to the outskirts of Hell. He comes from the culture of the military (the most color blind and merit-based in the country), and not the rarefied air of Hyde Park. He goes to a church with a mixed-race congregation and a rational preacher. He has never met Bill Ayers, and if he did he would flatten him. He thinks arugula is a town near Bogota and has Toby Keith on his favorites list. Would he strike no chords at all in Jacksonian country? Does anyone think he would lose 90 to 9 in Buchanan County? Or lose West Virginia by 41 points? For those Jacksonians who would be fine with a black man in the White House (not as tiny a group as Newsweek thinks), Colonel Obama is the one we are waiting for. When we will get him is anyone’s guess. I don’t know about Colonel Obama, but there’s one politician on the scene this year running for Congress in Florida who completes Emery’s List (heh) pretty nicely: Lt. Col. Allen West. What an amazing biography– and he’s even against amnesty: In my time spent in Afghanistan I saw first-hand how an unprotected border can destabilize an entire country. All you hear coming out of Washington is foolish rhetoric about writing new laws and creating new government programs that sound good on paper but do nothing to solve the problem. Our border patrol officers put their lives on the line every day protecting our borders and engaging in high-powered gun battles. The duties they perform go beyond those of an immigration official. They are defending our borders and it is time we equip them with the tools they need to secure our border. As your congressman, I will push to move the Border Patrol out of the INS and into the Department of Defense. This is not a social issue; this is a national security issue. Furthermore, something tells me LTC West isn’t going to be very patient with the Supreme Court’s handwringing on interrogation. LTC West’s feelings about arugula remain unknown, although I think we would be willing to overlook a few youthful indiscretions of that nature. _________________________ READER Comments: #1On June 14th, 2008 at 8:03 am, Jaded said: Lt. Col West is quite an impressive candidate and oh do I love his concern with our border…..he is the man Obama wishes he could be! #2On June 14th, 2008 at 8:04 am, va-conservative said: I must say, I never thought I’d see my home county (Buchanan) ever mentioned in some sort of national article like this. But I think it’s pretty much spot on. Bravo! #3On June 14th, 2008 at 8:13 am, wrcnossen said: It is typical for the left to poo-poo the objections of the unwashed, unenlightened masses, with the flip analysis of racism as the reason they don’t like Obama. Barone is spot-on with his analysis. While there will always be those idiots who vote by skin tone, most look at character, experience, temperament and motivation.